STRIDE SCHOLAROne readable run. One thing to change.
Schematic of the stride measurements this product reportsAn illustrative diagram: a wave showing hip height rising and falling across five foot contacts, a bracket marking vertical movement, and a marker showing how far ahead of the hip the foot lands. It is a drawing of the method, not measured data from a runner.VERTICAL MOVEMENT% of your heightFOOT AHEAD OF HIP% of leg lengthCONTACTCONTACTHIP HEIGHT ACROSS ONE CLIP
ONE PRIORITYOne change to test

Schematic of the method. Every number in a real report comes from your own clip.

SIDE-VIEW RUNNING FORM ANALYSIS

Your stride, measured.
Then one thing to change.

Film one side-view clip of yourself running. Stride Scholar measures several complete strides, labels every number with what it can and cannot show, and hands you one evidence-backed form change to test on your next run.

  1. 1 Film one clip
  2. 2 Set pace and surface
  3. 3 Read the measurements
  4. 4 Test one change
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$1.00 per run analysis plus $0.34 processing, charged as $1.34. No subscription. If the clip cannot support a report, the credit is returned.
  • Six or more strides
  • Every number carries its limits
  • No treadmill or lab required
WHAT IS ACTUALLY MEASURED

Numbers that admit what they are.

Consumer video can time a stride well and can judge geometry only approximately. The report says which is which on every single value, in these words, every time.

Cadence

Measured

steps/min

How many foot contacts you make per minute across the analyzed strides.

Limit It is the cadence of this clip at this pace only, not your cadence at every pace.

Foot landing position

Proxy

% of leg length ahead of your hip

How far in front of your hip the foot lands, scaled to your own leg length so camera distance does not matter.

Limit The hip is a stand-in for your centre of mass, and any camera angle that is not square to your path inflates or shrinks this distance.

Ground contact time

Proxy

ms

Roughly how long each foot appears to stay down, from the frames where the foot stops moving forward.

Limit Video frames cannot see the instant the foot touches or leaves the ground, so this is accurate only to about one frame in each direction.

Vertical movement

Proxy

% of your standing height

How much your hips rise and fall each step, scaled to your own height in the frame.

Limit Camera shake, a hand-held phone, or a runner drifting toward or away from the lens all add movement that is not yours.

A value that cannot clear its quality gate is not estimated and not softened. It is printed as not measurable in this clip, with the reason attached.

THE EVIDENCE FRAMES

Five moments, pulled from your own video.

Each observation in the report points at one of these frames. Nothing is asserted without a frame you can look at yourself.

  1. 01LandingWhere the foot meets the ground relative to your hip.
  2. 02Mid-stanceYour body directly over the supporting foot.
  3. 03Push-offThe last moment the foot is still down.
  4. 04Swing-throughThe trailing leg passing under the body.
  5. 05Heel recoveryHow far the heel folds toward the hip.
HOW IT WORKS

Film. Read. Test.

01Film one steady clip

Side on, full body, ten to twenty seconds at one effort. A phone on a wall is enough. Nothing is charged until the clip passes screening.

02Tell us the conditions

Pace band, surface, and how the camera was held. These change what the analysis is allowed to claim, so they are asked before anything is measured.

03Take one change to your next run

One priority, the frames that support it, and a specific retest so you can tell whether it worked. Your report is saved to your runs.

HONEST LIMITS

Useful evidence in.
Useful action out.

THIS CANDescribe what the video shows

Count your cadence and strides, time your contacts, and measure sagittal geometry scaled to your own body so camera distance does not matter. It ranks one priority and shows the frames behind it.

THIS CANNOTDiagnose you or predict injury

One camera, one plane, one clip. It cannot measure force, joint load, pronation, or anything from a front or rear view, and it is not a medical assessment. If something hurts, that is a question for a clinician, not for a video.

WHY PACE IS ASKED FIRST

Form is only comparable to form at the same effort.

Your mechanics change on purpose when you run harder. Reports are grouped by pace band so a comparison across weeks means something.

Easy
Conversational. You could speak in full sentences the whole time. Easy-pace form is the most repeatable baseline and the best band for tracking change over weeks.
Steady
Comfortably hard. Short sentences only. Steady running usually sits between your easy mechanics and your fast mechanics, so compare it only with other steady clips.
Tempo / threshold
Hard but controlled. A few words at a time. Cadence and contact time shift naturally at threshold, so a tempo clip will not match your easy numbers even when nothing has changed.
Interval / fast
Repeatable hard efforts with recovery between them. Fast running changes almost every measurable value, so this band is only useful against other fast clips.
PAY PER RUN

$1.00 an analysis.

Charged as $1.34 with processing included. Credits do not expire, packs lower the per-run price, and there is no subscription to cancel. If a clip cannot support a report, the credit returns to your account.

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